{"product_id":"the-bodies-of-birds-melanie-rae-thon-9781934832684","title":"The Bodies of Birds","description":"\u003cp\u003eResurrected and restored through the bodies of multitudes, a young woman who becomes an organ donor after a car accident radiates unmitigated love as she comes to know the recipients of her heart and kidneys--lungs, bowel, vertebrae, corneas . . . Twenty-seven years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, black storks glide over the Zone of Alienation. Apple trees bloom; lilacs flower--radioactive wolves thrive; bees make glowing honey . . . A prisoner in California, a man who killed a woman a hundred times, who stabbed face and throat, heart and belly, now washes another man in the shower, shaves his face, changes his diapers, protects and serves a murderer like himself, riddled by dementia . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrayers, love songs, laments, confessions--these three provocative immersions through and beyond the body explore the revelatory expansiveness of consciousness and compassion; the persistence of love; the trauma of intimate violence and environmental devastation; unexpected grace; and the remarkable resilience of the marvelously diverse more-than-human world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Melanie Rae Thon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1934832685\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781934832684\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/15\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 64\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.17lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.15d","brand":"Melanie Rae Thon","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43978830708991,"sku":"9781934832684","price":9.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1194525f-7b19-4abf-9582-b09e8dd8f2a9.jpg?v=1683243196","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-bodies-of-birds-melanie-rae-thon-9781934832684","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}